Re: texexec slow

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, R. Bastian wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am new on this list. I use pftex and would use ConTeXt installed with texlive/2007.
>
> 'ruby' and 'pdftex' work fine, but 'texexec' (texexec.rb "$@") is very slow.
>
> Where con I get the doc or what shall I do ?

I do not know if this is related or not...but

Occasionally I also find that texexec is extremely slow. (Takes about a 
minute to initiate and then runs fine). This happens, when my internet 
connection is in a bad state (which means that ping to a server also time 
out). In that situation texmfstart takes ages to get a response from drb. 
Whenever I kill the process by ^C, the interupt is in  the call to drb. I 
do not remember the exact interupt message, but I will try to get more 
information when this happens the next time. If I avoid texmfstart, ie, 
run ruby $TEXMFCONTEXT/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb directly, it runs 
fine.

Aditya
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